EIRP Proceedings, Vol 6 (2011)

Abstract

Transforming an economic community in an international political single actor represented an objective both for the theorist of the European unification process and for the founder father of the actual European Union. Nevertheless, the European entity created in 1950 was a particular economic corpus, where the national political leaders had some particular views on the future of their countries inside the European community. On the other part, the leaders of the European community had every time some political objectives for the new created entity, and the progressive accomplishment of these determined the coagulation of a particular type of political leadership, that of the actual European Union. Sometimes debated, other times denied or at least considered as incomplete, the European political leadership is a concept which could be considered as a new one. This originality is given but by the way to act of the new international actor, the European Union, and by the instruments used in the international action.